Although no widespread immigration raids were reported here this week, the possibility — and reports that Chicago would be ground zero for enforcement — kept many of the region’s estimated 400,000 undocumented immigrants at home.
The group warned administrators that changes to speech and protest policies and “overzealous discipline” of protesters are having a chilling effect.
Chicago Public Schools prevented officers from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according to school officials.
After the Trump administration said schools and churches were not off-limits for immigration arrests, Aurora area schools brace for possible encounters with ICE.
Richton Park resident Meagan Sims is working on her doctorate degree at Governor State University and helping people along the way.
Since being established in state law in 2010, the fact-finding process has been used three times. In two of those cases, teachers ultimately went on strike.
A routine proposal to pay Naperville School District 203’s monthly bills and claims hit a snag Tuesday when a board member previously censured for her actions was questioned as to why she didn’t review the information as scheduled.
A day after President Donald Trump threw out policies that limited immigration arrests at sensitive locations, such as churches, schools and hospitals, a ripple of fear spread across the undocumented community who were stripped of protection in places they once felt safest.
Valparaiso University President José Padilla announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the calendar year, capping a five-year tenure which saw disruptions on campus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the expansion of partnerships and programs to bring in new students as faculty and programs were cut, and the controversial planned sale of key artwork from the university’s museum.
The Orland District 230 contract will increase costs 19.52% over three years including more compensation for co-curricular stipends.